Where do critical development economists publish their articles and blog posts? Where can you read critical research on development economics? What kind of textbooks do critical development economists teach from? Here is a preliminary list of journals, blogs, and textbooks (but please send any additions you might have!).

Critical Development Economics Journals

• CEPAL review
• Competition and Change
• Development and Change
• Development Policy Review
• Economic and Political Weekly
• Economy and Society
• IDS Bulletin
• International Journal of Political Economy
• Journal of Agrarian Change
• Journal of Globalization and Development
• Progress in Development Studies
• Review of African Political Economy
• Review of International Political Economy
• Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
• The Journal of Economic Inequality
• Third World Quarterly

There are also many heterodox economics journals that publish development-related content (see a list from the Heterodox Economics Directory or from Union for Radical Political Economy).

Critical Development Economics Textbooks
Sick of that Development Economics textbook by Debraj Ray that appears to be taught in all development economics undergraduate courses? There are a few good alternatives out there for both the undergraduate and graduate level courses:

• Chang, Ha-Joon. Rethining Development Economics (2003)
• Cypher, James. The Process of Economic Development 4^th (2014)
• Jomo, KS. The Pioneers of Development Economics: Great Economists on Development (2005)
• Ravallion, Martin: The Economics of Poverty – History, Measurement, and Policy (2016)
• Ravenhill, John. Global Political Economy 4^th (2014)
• Rodrik – One Economics, Many Recipes – Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (2007)
• Thirlwall, A.P. Economics of Development – Theory and Evidence 9^th (2011)

There’s also an exciting textbook to be released this fall by Erik Reinert, Jayati Ghosh and Rainer Kattel: Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development. Also, see here for heterodox economics textbooks.

Blog Resources
There are some interesting blogs out there on development, development economics and heterodox economics:

• Africa Is A Country
• Debt Deflation (by Steve Keen)
• Dani Rodrik’s weblog
• Debtonation (Ann Pettifor’s blog)
• Econospeak
• From Poverty to Power (Duncan Green’s blog)
• Heteconomist
• International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs)
• Lady Economist
• LSE International Development
• Naked Capitalism
• Naked Keynesianism (by Mathias Vernengo)
• New Economics Foundation
• New Economic Perspectives
• New School Economic Review
• Post-Crash Economics
• Poverty Matters (The Guardian)
• Radical Political Economy
• Real-World Economics Review Blog
• Reddytoread (Sanjay Reddy’s blog)
• Rising Powers in Global Governance
• Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (The New School)
• Thomas Palley’s blog
• Thoughts on Economics (by Robert Vienneau)

Do you think something is missing in this overview? Please leave a comment below or e-mail me your suggestions. I’ll be happy to add more journals, blogs, and textbooks to the resources page.

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